Re: Warning and BUG with btrfs and corrupted image

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 14:13:51 EST


On Tue 2009-01-13 15:43:07, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> * Chris Mason (chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 15:21 +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > when mounting an intentionally corrupted btrfs filesystem i get the
> > > following warning and bug message. The image can be found here
> > > www.cccmz.de/~snakebyte/btrfs.2.img.bck.bz2
> >
> > Thanks for looking at things
> >
> > Aside from catching checksumming errors, we're not quite ready for
> > fuzzer style attacks. The code will be hardened for this but it isn't
> > yet.
>
> Does this mean i should stop trying to break it for now or are you interested
> in further reports?

Does ext2/3 and vfat survive that kind of attacks? Those are 'in
production' and should survive it...
Pavel
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